East End

A section of eastern London north of the Thames River. It was long a densely populated working-class and immigrant area centered around the docks and warehouses, although most of the slums described by Charles Dickens and other Victorian writers were obliterated by bombing raids during World War II.

East End

Proper noun

(colloquial, UK, chiefly London) The eastend of London, generally regarded to be east of the medieval walled City of London and north of the River Thames.